One screen-l participant remarked that he was not horrified or moved by the scenes of slaughter in Schindler's List because they consisted of unknown people killing unknown people rather than horrible things being done to characters we know. This seems to ignore the human response to the slaughter of the innocents, whether these innocent victims are known to us or not; thus the wrenching effect of many war photos or Holocaust documentaries. Consider also a fiction film such as The Killing Fields, which, like Schindler, is based on a true story: both concern massacres, which by their nature involve anonymous masses being mowed down. Or consider the massacre scene in Ghandi, also based on a historical incident. Audiences cannot help but be horrified by the brutality, even if the charactersare unknown and the scene removed from us by distance, time, and foreign culture. Similarly, the casual violence in Schindler is appalling because it is evil against good. Schindler contains one shocking scene of graphic, surreal violence after another. Some of the most disturbing are in the liquidation of the ghetto: a German soldier pauses to play classical music on a piano as gunfire blazes through an apartment building; the windows at night flare with sudden bursts of lightning coming from inside buildings all over the ghetto: each flare represents lives being suddenly and violently snuffed out. How could anyone remain unmoved by such vivid, unforgettable recreations of a historical massacre? Schindler stunned and haunted me; the images keep returning to my mind. Andrew Gordon